> Someone even wrote a nodejs tool for this functionality Coming from a more low level background but doing front end development from time to time, I am alway

> Someone even wrote a nodejs tool for this functionality Coming from a more low level background but doing front end development from time to time, I am always amazed by the sheer amount of seemingly useless javascript reimplementations of what would be bash one liners. For your question, how about "find <dir> -type f - maxdepth 1" ? You can put that in an alias or script in your path